Love, Andy

Love, Andy
Studio album by Andy Williams
Released	1967
Recorded	1967
Genre	AM pop, Traditional pop, Vocal pop[1]
Length	32:54
Label	Columbia
Producer	Nick DeCaro
Andy Williams chronology
Born Free (1967) Love, Andy (1967) Honey (1968)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Billboard	[3]

Love, Andy is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released in the fall of 1967 by Columbia Records to coincide with the NBC special of the same name, which aired on November 6.^[1][4] The album made its first appearance on Billboard's Top LP's chart that same month in the issue dated November 18 and remained on the album chart for 36 weeks, peaking at number eight.^[5] It entered the UK album chart in May 1968 and spent one week at number one over the course of 22 weeks, and the Recording Industry Association of America awarded the album Gold certification on May 14 of that year.^[6][7]

In the U.S., the single released from the album, "Holly", first appeared on the Easy Listening (or Adult Contemporary) chart in the issue of Billboard dated October 28, 1967, and peaked at number four during a 16-week stay.^[8] The song also began to "bubble under" the Hot 100 in the issue dated November 18, 1967, and eventually reached number 113.^[3] In the U.K., the song chosen as the single for release was a cover of Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes off You", and it entered the singles chart for the week of March 16, 1968, stayed around for 18 weeks, and got as high as number five.^[9]

The album was released on compact disc for the first time as one of two albums on one CD by Sony Music Distribution in 1995, the other album being Williams's Columbia release from the spring of 1963, Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests (under its U.K. title, Can't Get Used to Losing You and Other Requests).^[10] It was also released as one of two albums on one CD by Collectables Records on March 23, 1999, paired this time with Williams's Columbia album from the spring of 1967, Born Free.^[11]

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Song information 3 Chart positions 4 Personnel 5 Notes 6 References

Track listing

1. "Somethin' Stupid" (C. Carson Parks) – 2:59
2. "Watch What Happens" (Norman Gimbel, Michel Legrand) – 2:27
3. "The Look of Love" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 2:55
4. "What Now, My Love?" (Gilbert Bécaud, Pierre Delanoë, Carl Sigman) – 2:05
5. "Can't Take My Eyes off You" (Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio) – 3:15
6. "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" (Paul Campbell, Joel Newman) – 2:52
7. "Holly" (Craig Smith) – 2:25
8. "When I Look in Your Eyes" (Leslie Bricusse) – 3:22
9. "The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 2:25
10. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 2:53
11. "God Only Knows" (Tony Asher, Brian Wilson) – 2:52

Song information

• "Somethin' Stupid", by Frank Sinatra and daughter Nancy, entered the Billboard charts in the issue dated March 18, 1967, and became the best-charting Hot 100 or Easy Listening hit of either of their careers. The song spent 13 weeks on the pop chart and four of those weeks at number one, and during its 17 weeks on the Easy Listening chart, it spent nine weeks at number one, the most for any song that charted there that year.^[12][13] The pair also found success in the U.K., where they spent two weeks at number one over the course of 18 weeks.^[14] "Somethin' Stupid" earned the Sinatras a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year, but The Fifth Dimension won the award for "Up, Up and Away", a song that Williams would go on to record for his 1968 album Honey.^[15]

• "Watch What Happens" comes from the 1964 film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and was covered by several other vocalists before the close of the decade,^[16] including Ed Ames,^[17] Tony Bennett,^[18] Vic Damone,^[19] Blossom Dearie,^[20] Eddie Fisher,^[21] Ella Fitzgerald,^[22] Buddy Greco,^[23] Jack Jones,^[24] Morgana King,^[25] Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme,^[26] Peggy Lee,^[27] Johnny Mathis,^[28] Carmen McRae,^[29] Liza Minnelli,^[30] Chris Montez,^[31] Frank Sinatra,^[32] Bobby Troup,^[33] Caterina Valente,^[34] Sarah Vaughan,^[35] and Nancy Wilson.^[36]

• "The Look of Love" was written for the 1967 film Casino Royale and was first charted by Dusty Springfield on the Hot 100 in the issue of Billboard dated July 22, 1967.^[37] The song spent 15 weeks there and peaked at number 22, but it wasn't until 11 weeks into its appearance there, on October 7, that it debuted on the Easy Listening chart, where it reached number 31.^[38] An Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song came early the following year, and its performance at the Oscar ceremony on April 10, 1968, by Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 brought even greater chart success.^[39] Their new album Look Around, which included their cover of the song, had debuted on the Top LP's chart just weeks earlier, on March 9, and the single debuted on the magazine's singles charts in May, reaching number four on the pop chart and spending five weeks at number two Easy Listening.^[40][41][42]

• Sonny & Cher made the pop chart with "What Now, My Love?" in the Billboard issue of January 29, 1966, and took the song to number 14, while in the U.K. they reached number 13.^[43][44] An instrumental version by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass followed on March 19, reaching number 24 on the Hot 100, spending a week at number two Easy Listening, and earning the group Grammy nominations for Album of the Year and Record of the Year and awards for Best Instrumental Performance and Best Instrumental Arrangement.^[45][46][47] Organist "Groove" Holmes reached number 96 on the Hot 100 with the song in October 1966, and Mitch Ryder had a number 30 hit with it on that same chart after debuting in September of the following year.^[48][49]

• "Can't Take My Eyes off You" was to become Frankie Valli's biggest solo hit to date when it entered the Billboard Hot 100 in the issue of the magazine dated May 20, 1967. It spent 16 weeks there, eventually reaching number two for one week, and achieved Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.^[50] Valli also received Grammy nominations for Best Vocal Performance, Male and Best Contemporary Solo Vocal Performance, Male, losing in both categories to Glen Campbell, the only other performer who was nominated in both categories.^[51] The song that gave Campbell both wins, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", would be recorded by Williams for his 1968 album Honey. Williams revisited "Can't Take My Eyes off You" in 2002 as a duet with Denise Van Outen that reached number 23 in the U.K.^[52]

• The Weavers were accompanied by Leo Diamond & His Orchestra when they made "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" a number 19 hit in 1951.^[53] Six years later Jimmie Rodgers made the song a million seller and an across-the-board hit, reaching the top 10 in both the U.S. and the U.K. His version debuted on the Hot 100 chart in the Billboard issue dated November 18, 1957, and spent 21 weeks there, peaking at number three.^[54] Two weeks later, on December 2, he debuted on the Country singles chart, where he spent 16 weeks and reached number six, and December 9 was the debut on the R&B singles chart, where he got to number eight (out of 15 chart positions) over the course of six weeks.^[55] In the U.K. Rodgers was in direct competition with Frankie Vaughan in that both of them entered the singles chart with the song on December 21 and both of them spent 11 weeks there, but Rodgers edged out Vaughan by one chart position, getting as high as number seven while Vaughan made it to number eight.^[56][57]

• "When I Look in Your Eyes" was performed by Rex Harrison on the soundtrack album of the 1967 film Dr. Dolittle, which entered Billboard's Top LP's album chart in October of that year.^[58] The magazine's review of the recording appeared in its September 9 issue and was followed in quick succession by three more albums dedicated exclusively to the songs from the film.^[59] Reviews of the albums Bobby Darin Sings Doctor Dolittle and Anthony Newley Sings the Songs from Doctor Dolittle could be found in the September 16 issue, and the album Sammy Davis, Jr. Sings the Complete 'Dr. Dolittle' was reviewed in the issue for September 30.^[60][61] By the time of the film's U.S. opening on December 19, 1967, Johnny Mathis had also released a recording of "When I Look in Your Eyes" on his album Up, Up and Away, which entered the album chart in the issue dated December 23.^[62][63]

• "The More I See You" originated in the 1945 musical film Diamond Horseshoe, where it was sung by one of the stars of the film, Dick Haymes.^[64] His recording entered the charts the week of June 9, 1945, and eventually reached number seven but was not the first version to be released as a single.^[65] Harry James & His Orchestra charted two weeks earlier, on May 26, and got as high as number 12 with Buddy DeVito on vocal.^[66] Twenty-one years later, 23-year-old Chris Montez entered the Billboard charts in the issue dated April 16, 1966, with his rendition and spent 14 weeks on the Hot 100, peaking at number 16, and 16 weeks on the Easy Listening chart, four of which were spent at number two.^[67][68]

• Woody Herman & His Orchestra were the first to have a hit with "There Will Never Be Another You" when they spent a week at number 23 in November 1942.^[69] The song was first heard in the 1942 musical film Iceland as sung by Joan Merrill with accompaniment from Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra, but Nancy Norman provided the vocal when Kaye and company put the song on the charts for a week at number 20 in January 1943.^[70][71] "The More I See You" and "There Will Never Be Another You" were back-to-back hits for Chris Montez, with the latter entering the Billboard charts in the issue dated August 13, 1966, and reaching number 33 pop and number four Easy Listening.^[67][68]

• The Beach Boys song "God Only Knows" was released as the B-side of "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and entered the Hot 100 in the issue of Billboard dated August 13, 1966, eventually peaking at number 39 during an eight-week stay.^[72] The song was more successful in the U.K., where it entered the singles chart on July 30 and spent two weeks at number two over the course of 14 weeks.^[73]

Chart positions

Chart	Year	Peak position
UK Albums Chart[6]	1968	1

Preceded by John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan

UK Albums Chart number-one album 15 June 1968 - 22 June 1968

Succeeded by The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding

Personnel

• Andy Williams - vocals
• Nick DeCaro - arranger, producer
• Eddie Karam - conductor
• Lincoln Mayorga - piano ("God Only Knows")
• Rafael O. Valentin - recording engineer
• Frank Laico - recording engineer
• Peter Whorf - photographer

Notes

References